[Q] Is my Desire Complete Brick? - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My sister has a Desire and I modded it with a custom rom and hboot so that she can use ext3 for app data on SD. However, a week later, she told me that the desire no longer power on. The symptom are as follow:
1. when pull battery, and re-insert in, connect usb would charge with orange light and would turn green after an hour or so.
2. no other keys would response except power. Once power is pressed. Charging light would turn off and the bottom back of the machine would start heat up slowly.
3. No matter what I did, USB NEVER got any signal. (no fastboot, no adb, not even an unknown device detected.
4. No matter what I did, Nothing would come up on screen.
5. I am not sure if it is a amoled or slcd version.
6. the device is S-off.
Could anyone please tell if the device is completed bricked and I cannot fix it by myself? Thanks alot.

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I have read it. But I didn't find anything relevant.
I have no screen and no fastboot. Could you please point out where I should focus in the Q&A?

Slowly heat up to abnormally hot temps or just heat up like phone running screen on for 20 mins?
If it is getting hot and nothing is working then their is probably a short inside and it is bricked and has 95% chance of having nothing to do with rooting.
If it just warms up and doesn't work then it probably has something to do with something she did or by chance you had a bad dl or something and it bricked. For you to have no hboot and no recovery to boot into makes it hard to believe it just happened.
Moral of the story is yes hard brick in my opinion. The only way to recover s phone is by USB and if you have no connection then their is a short or your device is literally wiped which is had to do.
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can you boot in to recovery? Did ya try all usb ports on computer? And do u have the usb drivers installed on your computer for your phone?
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sknight13602 said:
Slowly heat up to abnormally hot temps or just heat up like phone running screen on for 20 mins?
If it is getting hot and nothing is working then their is probably a short inside and it is bricked and has 95% chance of having nothing to do with rooting.
If it just warms up and doesn't work then it probably has something to do with something she did or by chance you had a bad dl or something and it bricked. For you to have no hboot and no recovery to boot into makes it hard to believe it just happened.
Moral of the story is yes hard brick in my opinion. The only way to recover s phone is by USB and if you have no connection then their is a short or your device is literally wiped which is had to do.
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It is a bit hotter than idle. But not heating up strongly like short circuit. I tried to created a gold card but I have no idea how it would help.

jmcclue said:
can you boot in to recovery? Did ya try all usb ports on computer? And do u have the usb drivers installed on your computer for your phone?
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I cannot. Not even fastboot.
I have tried in many ports and I am sure I have installed HTC Sync / PDA Net / Galaxy Driver, etc...

So you only get the charging LED and nothing else? If you turn on your Desire nothing happens except that the LED goes out?

MatDrOiD said:
So you only get the charging LED and nothing else? If you turn on your Desire nothing happens except that the LED goes out?
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Yes.. that is what I have now.

mcdull said:
Yes.. that is what I have now.
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I'm in the same situation, pls help! or simple tell if there is no chance to unbrick

manuelbett said:
I'm in the same situation, pls help! o siple tell if there is no chance to unbrick
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No recovery, no fastboot? Not even a slight vibration? Only led?

abaaaabbbb63 said:
No recovery, no fastboot? Not even a slight vibration? Only led?
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Yes, only led (green and orange representing battery state), and it turn off pressing power button, after that to have leds have to completly give no alimentation (unplug battery an also usb cable), if I plug on the usb and no battery, led fast blink green and orange...
Tnk U for your reply..

manuelbett said:
Yes, only led (green and orange representing battery state), and it turn off pressing power button, after that to have leds have to completly give no alimentation (unplug battery an also usb cable), if I plug on the usb and no battery, led fast blink green and orange...
Tnk U for your reply..
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I think it's a hardware failure. You should either get it to a service, or use it as a HTC battery charger

if you hold down volume down and power, do u get anything?

Sv: [Q] Is my Desire Complete Brick?
What recovery is installed? A certain version of cwm wont charge the Phone when its turned off..
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manuelbett said:
Yes, only led (green and orange representing battery state), and it turn off pressing power button, after that to have leds have to completly give no alimentation (unplug battery an also usb cable), if I plug on the usb and no battery, led fast blink green and orange...
Tnk U for your reply..
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Maybe try this, I mean you dont have a lot to loose...
When your phone is supposed to be "ON" press volume down, power and the optical trackpad (between the menu and the back button). This should do a hard reboot, when the phone is on. When my Desire is freezes, I use this (instead of popping the battery).
I don't think it'll work, sounds like you have some kind of hardware malfunction, but one can never know. What is the harm in tryin'?

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Desire HD wont turn on?

Hey guys,
Was just looking through the market and saw an animations app, so i downloaded it, installed as normal, accepted the superuser request and chose what animation i wanted, (I chose blur if it makes any difference). It then requested a reboot, so i rebooted, but now nothing happens to my phone, It is just like the phone is powered off, nothing comes up on the screen. Ive tried booting normally and booting into recovery but nothing
Any ideas?
I'm using Leedroid ROM and Kernel, both on the latest versions.
Thanks in advance.
What happend if you plug in the power cable? Isn't booting into recovery?
dmue said:
What happend if you plug in the power cable? Isn't booting into recovery?
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Nope nothing happens, it's just like its got no power to it :/
take out your battery, put it back in and restart your DHD.
sphuyal said:
take out your battery, put it back in and restart your DHD.
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Nope nothing happens, maybe I should try a new battery?
IMHO a new battery dosen't help...
No more idea, sry.
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charge battery till full ?
Take your battery out for five minutes, put it back and connect charger. Do not touch the power button.
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jkoljo said:
Take your battery out for five minutes, put it back and connect charger. Do not touch the power button.
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Will try this now
jkoljo said:
Take your battery out for five minutes, put it back and connect charger. Do not touch the power button.
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Nope nothing happened
Take the battery out again, put it back and then hold volume down & power button. You can also connect the charger to be sure that this is not caused by low battery level. If it still stays off, you should send it to HTC.
jkoljo said:
Take the battery out again, put it back and then hold volume down & power button. You can also connect the charger to be sure that this is not caused by low battery level. If it still stays off, you should send it to HTC.
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Yep still nothing happens, send it to HTC even though it is rooted?
You have no other choice. Software mods do not void warranty, so it should be ok.
jkoljo said:
You have no other choice. Software mods do not void warranty, so it should be ok.
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Ok, thanks so much for the help.
I'm having the same problem now... wilky let me know if you get it working or if HTC gets it fixed without a hassle, because mines rooted .
Hi
I have the same problem. When I put the Battery and plug in the chagher the red led start to flash.
After 1 minute stops.
If someone can help us we will be very happy!!!!!!
10x
Got the same problem after starting to format my sdcard with cwm. Just nothing happens anymore, but when i connect my dhd to my computer its indicated as device "qhsusb_dload", but i cant access it with adb or anything. Tried to foce install htc-drivers, but didnt help. Gonna take it to a local o2 store and check if there can be anything done bout it.
when i drained my battery fully to the point that it turns itself off, when i plugged it in it sort of looped into boot, but after i remove the charger and plugged it again, the red light turned on and i just left if for ten minutes, then pressed the power button then i turned on as normal.
i'm thinking it might be because the battery is just too drained at one point.
Squalli said:
Got the same problem after starting to format my sdcard with cwm. Just nothing happens anymore, but when i connect my dhd to my computer its indicated as device "qhsusb_dload", but i cant access it with adb or anything. Tried to foce install htc-drivers, but didnt help. Gonna take it to a local o2 store and check if there can be anything done bout it.
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I have same problem.
Its just happened NOW. What the hell ? What we can do to fix this ?
Guys
I had the same problem.
I charged aways the phone by the USB on my PC.
But this is a problem.
Try to charge for an Hour or two your usb original charger your phone.
My problem was that the battery was so empty that the PC USB coudn't had the power to charge it. The Original Charger CAN.
So dont wait more and put it and Charge.
Tell me if this was the resolution.
Bye bye

Issues with booting (blinking orange LED)

Hi there,
I'm having strange issues with DHD. I've read a few threads with issues like this, but symptoms are always slightly different.
Yesterday, I've connected it to the charger (the battery was empty), and when I tried to turn it on, it just did 3 vibrations and orange notif. LED started blinking. When connected to the USB, the Windows recognizes device as Qualcomm, and further reading suggested that the phone is entering service mode, which is normally accessible with Power + Vol+. I've also found out that volume rocker can be the issue, but in my case I don't see anything wrong with it, it's working and looking like before.
No matter what I did, it always did the same, it won't even go into recovery (Power + Vol-), screen always stays blank, the only activity I'm getting are flashing LEDs and vibrations.
Also, phone is charging when turned off (battery removed and reinserted). I've charged it for a few hours yesterday and the green LED was on.
And finally, when turned off, and plugged into the USB, after few seconds, adb devices will show the device, and after the serial number it says recovery. Does that mean that the phone booted into the recovery? The screen is still black though.
So, the most important thing for me is to find out is it possible to return the phone back to stock, in order to send it for a repair. And even better, a solution for the problem
I believe its a hardware problem, although adb says its in recovery. Any more ibfo you could give us? ROM, how you rooted it etc?
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thanks don't hurt ya know?
Take off battery,connect phone to charger via USB for 3 minutes ,than insert battery put battery cover now u should see orange light ,now press power button and voila
It's an issue with the volume rocker I think
Had a very similar issue when I had IceColdSandwich on my DHD, only started when I flashed that Rom, reflashed a different Rom, everything is fine again!
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GuyInTheCorner said:
I believe its a hardware problem, although adb says its in recovery. Any more ibfo you could give us? ROM, how you rooted it etc?
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I hane ARHD 6.3.3 installed. Also, used Hack Kit for root and S-OFF.
atrako1973 said:
Take off battery,connect phone to charger via USB for 3 minutes ,than insert battery put battery cover now u should see orange light ,now press power button and voila
It's an issue with the volume rocker I think
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Tried this, it's not working, still vibrates and blinks
c5satellite2 said:
Had a very similar issue when I had IceColdSandwich on my DHD, only started when I flashed that Rom, reflashed a different Rom, everything is fine again!
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I'm not sure that the issue is with ROM, I'm starting to think that it's probably a hardware issue. And that's why I need to found out how to return everything to stock, and send it for warranty.
Try again it will work .may be leave it longer after you put the battery in like an hour .it should work after an hour press the power button
please help me .......my htc desire 820 while update lolipop udate battery empty and got switched off not turning on...led light is blinking
I am having same problem with my HTC 820. As display gets in black screen. When I am trying to switch ON my devices it starts but still screen is in black mode. I am also not able to recover my device due to black screen.
please help me to out from this problem !!
I dnt know what is the exact problem with my device ?
dvpt said:
I am having same problem with my HTC 820. As display gets in black screen. When I am trying to switch ON my devices it starts but still screen is in black mode. I am also not able to recover my device due to black screen.
please help me to out from this problem !!
I dnt know what is the exact problem with my device ?
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Today, i visit the service, flat cable and battery where reinserted and everything is normal now. You could try this method if you have a warranty. Best regards.
eshwar.k said:
please help me .......my htc desire 820 while update lolipop udate battery empty and got switched off not turning on...led light is blinking
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same problem. Did u get out of it
HTC D820
My HTC d820 orange light blinking while charging and won't turn on.Nothing on display.I open phone and put the battery out.Battery is full 4.32V. I put the battery back but nothing happened .Anybody know what to do?
Works thankyou
atrako1973 said:
Take off battery,connect phone to charger via USB for 3 minutes ,than insert battery put battery cover now u should see orange light ,now press power button and voila
It's an issue with the volume rocker I think
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Thankyou so much after leaving phone in cupboard for like 5 years and forgot why it was on there I decided to plug it up. Then I remembered it wouldn't turn on and I was getting the orange blinking. After following your instructions it's all on again. Have upgraded since then so I guess this is a back up phone now lol

[Q] Desire doesn't boot. Looks like dead or something like that..

Hi
I've problem with my HTC Desire. Phone doesn't boot, doesn't do anything. Diode doesn't lights at any colour when I tray to charge or connect with my PC. I have installed Android SDK, but it's not detecting my Desire. Also my PC doesn't detect it anymore. I have no idea what I can do. I tried combinations like these: power + vol-; power + back; power + vol+ + vol-; with no result.
Thank you very much for any help.
Any ideas?
pablo7890 said:
Any ideas?
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Probably dead motherboard.Have you tried to flash it? If you have, brick would be my best bet.
Mine had a dead board, vibrated all the time while on charger but no dispplay sound or anything.
Tried replacing usb cable / battery?

Desire HD won't turn on

Hi guys,
yesterday I tried to recover the original ROM for Desire HD. During the process in bootloader, my phone shutdown, and I can't turn it on now, even the bootloader wont run. I think my battery was too low, even tought the phone showed 99% (it happened before, even though the battery was almost dead), and it died during the update. Basically, I'm not able to access any feature right now, I'm not sure, if the phone is charging - when I plug it in, the orange light turns on, but when I unplug, the light stays on. Bootloader won't start, but when I press both volume buttons and power button, the phone vibrates 3 times, green light turns on, and thats all.
If you need more info, please ask.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
You were recovering official ROM from the RUU? This should not result in your device being bricked.
Please try removing the battery for about 10 seconds, then press Vol Dn+Power button and a partial bootloader showing RUU failed or a similar error should open.
Then connect your phone to your PC and again run the Official RUU Setup.
Hit "Thanks" if I helped you. Also click "Donate to me" on the left if u wanna give something in return
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You were recovering official ROM from the RUU? This should not result in your device being bricked.
Please try removing the battery for about 10 seconds, then press Vol Dn+Power button and a partial bootloader showing RUU failed or a similar error should open.
Then connect your phone to your PC and again run the Official RUU Setup.
Hit "Thanks" if I helped you. Also click "Donate to me" on the left if u wanna give something in return
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Hi, thanks, nothing happens when I push down volume down and power buttons, even after removing batteries. I believe something is actually happening ,but nothing shows on the screen, because when I push volume down and power, and then I plug in the power cable, the orange light does not turn on, while when I plug it in without the combination, it does turn on.
I think that was an official Rom, because I've used it before, and my phone was not rooted afterwards - I did this successfully two times before. However, I recovered it from SD card (pd98img zip copied on the ssd).
Maybe you can try it...just try let the charge is plug in...n leave it be for a hour maybe...don't try to turn on the phone..
After a hour you can try unplug the charge...and remove your battery first...then put it in again...then try power on with pressing volume down+power button..just let see if this time the phone can go to bootloader or not..
Hope this can help..
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JJeamy said:
Maybe you can try it...just try let the charge is plug in...n leave it be for a hour maybe...don't try to turn on the phone..
After a hour you can try unplug the charge...and remove your battery first...then put it in again...then try power on with pressing volume down+power button..just let see if this time the phone can go to bootloader or not..
Hope this can help..
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No luck there :/
Fluorescent222 said:
No luck there :/
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you mean still not turn on..?
what about if tried with a different battery..?
JJeamy said:
you mean still not turn on..?
what about if tried with a different battery..?
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yeah. I thought about that, but I dont have any desire hd battery here, and I don't know how to charge this one without the phone.
I appear to be having similar problems with it not turning on. when i plug in the charger i get no orange light atall.. if i leave it plugged in (usually within 1hr to 2) eventually it will boot to custom recovery and from there i can reboot the phone and will boot to android. but it does not last very long atall usually about 30mins. have reset battery stats from recovery but doesnt seem to help.
from what i can find online its dieing but can anyone advise on if it will be the battery or the phone itself???
i have just spent $30 fixing digitizer and lcd in the past month. if it is needing a new battery i will proberbly do that but if not it can go..
hope this may help with your problem or any other....
1am570yl3z said:
I appear to be having similar problems with it not turning on. when i plug in the charger i get no orange light atall.. if i leave it plugged in (usually within 1hr to 2) eventually it will boot to custom recovery and from there i can reboot the phone and will boot to android. but it does not last very long atall usually about 30mins. have reset battery stats from recovery but doesnt seem to help.
from what i can find online its dieing but can anyone advise on if it will be the battery or the phone itself???
i have just spent $30 fixing digitizer and lcd in the past month. if it is needing a new battery i will proberbly do that but if not it can go..
hope this may help with your problem or any other....
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probably won't help my problem.
but to solve yours, download one of the apps that tells you how much battery health you have. You might also get a pretty good deal on a new battery from ebay

HTC ONE M8 EYE ... Hard Bricked ...XDA Genius please help...!!

Hi All
I have an HTC one M8 EYE and i think i have bricked my phone...!!
MY hTC was not showing the sim card and i searched on different forums and found that Wiping Dalvic Cache might able to help.
I tried to get into recovery mode but unfortunately my charging was only 7%. Screen goes off after the initially click on recovery mode but its not turning on now :crying: ....
i tried all alternative pressing power and volume down Combinations ..searched on various forum and you tube but nothing seems to be working.
Now the phone is accepting the charging but not showing up the red light indicator on top.
So, could you please help how to fix this? i only have this phone (no money) .... HTC service centre saying that motherboard or ROM gone..they have to replace that and it cost more than the current value of phone...!! ...pls help..!!!
thanks in advance
Leave your phone on the charger for an hour or so, while plugged in hold the power button and volume up for at least 15 seconds. Does the phone vibrate?
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Leave your phone on the charger for an hour or so, while plugged in hold the power button and volume up for at least 15 seconds. Does the phone vibrate?
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no nothing happened ...even no RED LED... i dont know how failed recovery mode process can brick the motherboard....
Vishnudutt said:
i dont know how failed recovery mode process can brick the motherboard....
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Unless it was applying an update to hboot or radio, it probably can't brick the phone.
It's suspicious that you had low charge, and now it won't power on. You may just be in a lower battery condition, where the battery won't accept a charge. Try leaving the phone on wall charger (not connected to computer) and try the battery combos again. You may need to hold the buttons for a minute or more to force a boot.
But you also should not have been messing with the phone, recovery, etc. with such low battery.
My phone has similar problem but with red light when it's connected to the charger.
Phone doesn't turn on and PC doesn't show anything.
Tried Power and volume up and down combinations many times.
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